THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

FALL 2001 COURSE

Computer Science 285

INFORMATION POLICY

Professor Lance J. Hoffman

6:10-8:40 p.m., Tuesdays, Fall 2001, August 28-December 4, 2001, in 459 Rome Hall

For computer science (CS) and non-CS students; juniors and seniors also accepted

http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~lanceh/cs285.htm

CRN 44669, Prometheus Course ID 39041

COURSE DESCRIPTION IN BULLETIN (2001-2002): Issues related to computers and privacy, equity, freedom of speech, search and seizure, access to personal and governmental information, professional responsibilities, ethics, criminality, and law enforcement. Examines policy issues using written, electronic, and videotape proceedings of recent major cross-disciplinary conferences. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.

Required Texts

Because of the structure of the course and the currency of the material, there is no formal textbook. However, you will be asked to read and discuss material from a number of sources. Most but not all of this is available on the Internet, and basic knowledge of how to use it and possession of an e-mail account and fluency in its use is assumed.

Lectures

In general, each class session will consist of answering and discussing questions from previous classes; dealing with any administrative items; the instructor’s comments on the assigned readings for the class; and a lecture (sometimes by an expert guest) on the topic of that particular class. In some class sessions, students will present their work (on their term projects) on specific topics.

The most up-to-date material for this class is maintained in the University’s Prometheus system. Current events related to topics in the course will be discussed, and students are encouraged to bring up news items related to these, and to discuss them on the discussion board.

A tentative lecture schedule is given below. There is a fairly heavy reading workload and a few more items may be added to these reading assignments. For many of the assigned readings, you may have to register online with the provider to access them (and in some cases, pay a nominal amount). When you do, read their privacy policy and select choices appropriate for you.

Some of the other online articles are free in print form in the GW library and available online to organization members/subscribers. In this case, you decide what your time is worth – and, more generally, think about the intellectual property system is working (or not working) in this era of Internet access to intellectual property. You may wish to share your thoughts on this on the class discussion board on the Prometheus system .

One can wonder whether it would be worthwhile for a packager (one of the class members) to step forward, access the online archives, pay, and then reproduce the material for sale (at cost? at a profit?) to his or her classmates. Is this cost-efficient? Convenient? Legal? Is he or she, or the university, or the author of these words (the professor) likely to be prosecuted? Is this an appropriate question to ask? If not, do you have a better one to ask?

There are lots of readings. Certainly read every one preceded by a ** in the list below. But if you are doing a project in a given area (e.g., Privacy), you should read ALL the readings in that area. And other students should to the extent they have time to do so, since many of these will be discussed in class and on the Prometheus discussion board (and thus be fair game for the exam).

LECTURE SCHEDULE (not guaranteed -- the current schedule (which is tentative and may be altered at a moment's notice to take advantage of experts who are in town, etc.) is given below)

NO.	DATE	TOPIC AND ASSIGNMENT DUE BEFORE CLASS
1	8/28	Introduction and overview (Prometheus course password given out)
	9/3	Labor Day Holiday
2	9/4	Privacy in an Internet Age TEAM ASSIGNMENTS MADE Privacy Readings
3	9/11	Governance in an Internet Age Governance Readings
4	9/18	Exercise in conjunction with a research project: “German web site registration made compulsory” scenario TBD
5	9/25	Intellectual property in an Internet Age Intellectual property readings
6	10/2	Elections in the Internet Age Election readings
	10/3	Cyberspace Policy Institute: Debate 1-5 pm, Richard Stallman, Free Software Foundation vs. *** of Microsoft. Topic: GP License
	10/8	Columbus Day holiday
7	10/9	Privacy and Governance Team Presentations Interim written project reports for Privacy and Governance teams; ten minute presentations from individuals on their topics; comments returned next week by instructor
8	10/16	To be announced. Whatever is currently juicy. Readings TBD COMMENTS RETURNED FROM INSTRUCTOR TO TEAMS PRESENTING LAST WEEK
9	10/23	Intellectual Property and Elections Team Presentations Interim written project reports for Intellectual Property and Elections teams; ten minute presentations from individuals on their topics; comments returned next week by instructor
10	10/30	To be announced. Whatever is currently juicy. Readings TBD COMMENTS RETURNED FROM INSTRUCTOR TO TEAMS PRESENTING LAST WEEK
11	11/6 Election Day	Election Game, Part 1, Political and Technical Introductions Prof. Michael Cornfield, Research Director, Democracy Online Project, Graduate School of Political Management Prof. Hoffman Elections Readings Election Scenario will be made available before this class session.
12	11/13	Election Game Part 2, THE GAME ITSELF DRAFT PROSE PAPERS AND VISUALS DUE. There is a penalty for lateness.
13	11/20	Election War Game Part 3: After-Event Analysis
	11/21-23	Thanksgiving holiday; no classes
14	11/27 LONG CLASS	All Teams and All Individuals Will Present Their Results in Five Minute Presentations FINAL PROSE PAPERS DUE, VISUALS POSTED TO PROMETHEUS BY START OF CLASS
	11/31	ALL POTENTIAL EXAM QUESTIONS MUST BE POSTED TO PROMETHEUS BY 11:59 P.M.
15	12/4	FINAL EXAM

Student Projects

Students are assigned to do individual projects in a designated research area. These projects result in both a term paper and a five-minute presentation (and also a five-minute presentation of a status report early in the semester). These individual projects are also melded together by the students in that research area to form a report and a five-minute presentation on it. This semester’s projects are the following:

A: Privacy

Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) and Privacy Invading Technologies (PITs)

Focus: research, tool testing

Individual projects: PETs, PITs, Test coordination and supervision

B: Governance

Focus: research, report, scenario development

Individual projects:

Jurisdiction issues: Examples -- Germany hypothetical domain name regulation, France real lawsuit against Yahoo!

Harmonizing e-commerce laws and regulations

Policy tradeoffs in delivering services

C: Intellectual Property

Focus: ***

Individual projects:

The Digital Millenium Copyright Act and Its Effect on Research

New Economic Models for Intellectual Property in the Internet Age

Hyprocrisy on Both Sides in the Debate Over Intellectual Property on the Internet

D: Computers and Elections

Focus: research, report, scenario building, scenario role-play, report, and analysis

Individual projects:

Literature survey of recent publications and others as appropriate

Web-based cost/benefit tool for election officials considering new technology

Scenario development after analysis of class exercise

About This Course

Some of this description below has been adapted, and in many cases the exact wording used, from similar writings by Prof. Michael Froomkin of the University of Miami Law School, see www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/inet00/index.htm, who says about himself “I tend to lead discussions with a lot of questions. Some of them are leading questions, some of them are misleading questions, but oftentimes they are just plain questions as I am curious as to your views, or I have no idea what the answer is either.” I feel the same way.

How to Contact the Instructor

I urge you to contact me if you have questions, comments, or suggestions about the class. I cannot stress strongly enough how important it is to come and see me (or phone me) early in the semester if you think you need help understanding something. If you are doing the reading but still feel lost or confused, don't wait until the last three weeks of class. I can help. But not at the last minute.

Office hours are Tuesdays 3:30-5:30 p.m. in person at my office in 704Q Gelman Library. However, many (probably most) questions or problems can be resolved by electronic mail, and don't require us to both be available at the same time, and don't require you to wait all week to see me. My email address is hoffman@seas.gwu.edu. If possible, try to communicate this way when not in class. Please check your email at least twice per week for announcements about the class. You may also call me on campus at (202) 994-4955, though email is probably more efficient and quicker much of the time (see below).

Getting to Know You

Please email me a paragraph or so about yourself. Include your day and evening phone numbers and email addresses, and your postal mail address, and who your employer is (or indicate that you are a full-time student). I will not share this information with any other person and will use it only to contact you during class, or possibly after this class is over (if, for example, I hear of a job opportunity you might like, or wish to draw on some specialized knowledge you have, or maybe to let you know about a new course that you might be interested in).

Getting to Know Me

If you would like more information on my research interests, publications, etc., see

http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~lanceh/.

Attendance. There's no need to even bother with excuses for the rare and inevitable absence, but please make every effort to come on time. If you can't make it on time, it's still better to come late than not at all.

Exams

There is one closed-book multiple choice exam for the final, which may also include a word question or two. Anything we discuss in class, on the e-mail mailing list (so long as it's relevant to the class, of course), that arrives from acm TechNews (see below), or that appears in the assigned portions of the syllabus, or any additional photocopied readings that I assign or hand out is fair game for the exam, unless I specifically say otherwise.

Candidate Exam Questions

You are also required to submit at least ten multiple choice questions and their answers with explanations and/or citation(s) no later than the start of class on November 27 for possible use on the final exam. (You must meet this deadline or you will forfeit two of the ten possible class participation points.) These will most likely reflect your area of greatest knowledge (your project) but can relate to any course material. The final exam will be made up of some of these questions plus others the instructor provides. If your questions are good, unambiguous, relevant, and on point, they may very well be used. The more they are used, the better score on the final exam you get (since you know these questions and their answers before you ever start taking the final exam), and you get a better score on Class Participation also. So feel free to test them (and the answers) on your teammates, spouses, friends, etc., before turning in as many good questions as possible. If you wish, you can do this using the thread labeled “Candidate Exam Questions” on the Prometheus discussion section for this class.

Keeping Current

Students are required to subscribe to ACM Tech News http://www.acm.org/technews/ and will be responsible at the final exam for having read it throughout the semester. (It is also the source for many terrific discussion jumping-off points during the semester, and students are encouraged to post pointers to interesting articles and their opinions about the topics to the Class Discussion Board.)

If these discussions or the class discussions lead you to submit a proposal by October 15, 2001 to the Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (http://www.cfp2002.org/) that you have discussed in class, and you send a copy of that proposal to the instructor, you automatically get one of your ten class participation points.

Discussion Board

Reading and using the Prometheus discussion board is an important part of this class. Please try to think of the list as an extension of class: anything relating to the substance or procedure of the class is welcome, but irrelevant things are not. The usual rules of civility apply to email just as they would to class. And, I give class participation credit for thoughtful, relevant, pithy, participation on the list, just as I do for similar contributions in class. (If you need a Prometheus account, go to http:prometheus.gwu.edu and create it.)

Your (and Your Team’s) Report and Presentation

Your progress report should feature a Gantt chart or similar project tracking mechanism that shows milestones, progress, problems, and expected immediate and long term work. Your written report and presentation should both keep in mind the audience (your classmates, who are a smart but heterogeneous group of people [they are not all technical experts and not all policy wonks]). So if you need to introduce something with a page or two (or slide or two), don’t hesitate to do so. And heed the old advice to “tell ‘em what you are going to tell ‘em; tell ‘em; and tell ‘em what you told ‘em”. Focus substantively on the important things you discovered, why they are important, and what the implications are (especially for the future).

Papers

For writing papers, an extremely helpful aid is “the Little Book”, The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr., E.B. White, Charles Osgood (Afterword), Roger Angell (Foreword), paperback, 4th edition (August 1999)l, Allyn & Bacon; ISBN: 020530902X. You can get “How to Write” by Herbert E. and Jill M. Meyer (Storm King Press, ISBN: 0-394-75352-6). Prof. Eugene Volokh of UCLA has a very good article for law students, Writing A Student Article. Section III, “Writing”, can be used by all students and, indeed, by any writer. Dr. S. Joseph Levine of Michigan State has a useful “Writing and Presenting Your Thesis or Dissertation” guide at http://www.learnerassociates.net/dissthes/; you can use some of those ideas for writing and presenting your project work. For citations of web sites, use "The Columbia Guide to Online Style", http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html. Also, the University Writing Center at 550 Rome Hall, www.gwu.edu/~gwriter, has been very helpful to a number of previous students.

Never submit anything without carefully reading it through in one sitting yourself, marking it up as you go, and then revising it to make more sense before you turn it in. Leave time to do this – if the deadline is Tuesday at 6:10 p.m., give yourself an internal deadline of Sunday at 6:10 p.m. so that you can then get your material read by someone else – for example, a fellow student, your spouse, a colleague at work – before you turn it in; ask them to be brutal in their assessment. When they are done with it Monday evening, you will still have one more day to make any modifications indicated by them and to read it through again and make final changes before turning it in. The instructor will most likely read your work in one sitting, so why not simulate that experience with your friends to get a sense of the impression your work will make? It’s far better to have your draft work beaten up by your friends rather than have the instructor discover at grading time the confusion, typos, and other stuff that is in most first drafts.

Turning in Written Assignments

Please DO NOT submit papers in binders, notebooks, or other containers. These are expensive, unnecessary, and actually make the instructor's life more difficult. In almost all cases, a word-processed report on regular paper with a staple in the upper left hand corner is all that is needed. (You can usually attach a diskette or CD or DVD securely right on the title page, if necessary.)

Please paginate your work. It must be typed or computer printed -- no handwritten reports will be accepted. And it should be in the format of a traditional written report. So any printouts of Web pages with "Back to start" and similar buttons and entities which would not appear in a traditional written document are not acceptable as part of the written report.

If, because of work or some other absence, you will be unable to deliver a written homework assignment in person, I accept email, fax (202 994-4875), and overnight mail (street address (not physical office) is Computer Science Department, 7^th floor, Phillips Hall, 801 22^nd St. NW, Washington DC 20052).

GRADING:

Your course grade will be determined by your performance on a number of items listed below.

Final exam 40

Class participation and contributions 10

Individual paper 20

Individual visual presentation 20

Team paper 5

Team visual presentation 5

100 total points

Incompletes

Generally, allowing a time extension to complete course requirements is, or can be construed to be, unfair to the remainder of students who complete their work on time. Accordingly, the grade of Incomplete ("I") will be awarded only in those very few cases which are clearly justified by factors beyond a student's control. In such cases, revised due dates are established and adhered to.

Plagarism

Students are assumed to be knowledgeable of the university Code of Academic Integrity. Any violations of it will be dealt with according to procedures laid out within it. If you are not familiar with this, look it up on the Web at http://cs.seas.gwu.edu/info/acaddish.html. Also, if you are not familiar with the Computer Science Department’s statement of Academic Integrity in Computer Science, read it now at http://cs.seas.gwu.edu/info/integrity-cs.html. Specific (additional) policies with regard to this class are:

Do not use any material verbatim in detail without citing it, and never quote more than a paragraph or two, without checking with the instructor first. Do not capture material from (other's) Web pages and represent it as your own. This is plagiarism and anyone found doing this will be severely punished in line with the University Policy on Academic Dishonesty.

If you are unsure of what this means, ask the instructor.

Grading is done on a curve, but excellent overall course performance always gets an A, regardless of the work of others.

If you want a grade report before the registrar sends one to you, give the instructor a self-addressed stamped envelope or postcard and he will send you your final grade as soon as it is computed.

Source Material (as of August 19, 2001)

Governance:

Internet Challenges French Polling Laws, May 30, 1997:

http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/053097france.html,

Reading: (1) Yahoo! and hate speech decision of November 20, 2000, available at www.cdt.org/jurisdiction. The assigned reading is the item labeled “English Translation of French ruling.”

Carl S. Kaplan, French Nazi Memorabilia Case Presents Jurisdiction Dilemma, New York Times Cybertimes, August 11,2000. http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/08/cyber/cyberlaw/11law.html

“Saudi Arabia Blocks Access to Yahoo Site”, New York Times Cybertimes, August 14, 2000, http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/08/biztech/articles/14yahoo.html

"Cybercafe Crackdown", Interactive Week (08/13/01) Vol. 8, No. 31, P. 43; Gruenwald, Juliana, http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2803510,00.html

“China Tames wild, wild Web”, http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2001/08/02/p1s1.htm

** Kalathil, S. and Boas, T., “The Internet and State Control in Authoritarian Regimes: China, Cuba, and the Counterrevolution”, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, www.ceip.org/files/publicationswp21.asp, July 2001

ICANN@LARGE redacted letter to member Dr. Lance Hoffman (will be made available to class on Prometheus ***)

Michael Froomkin, The Empire Strikes Back, click on the paper of that title at the web site http://www.law.tm

READ ALL THE PAPERS IN

Congressional Internet Caucus Briefing Book on E-Government

http://www.netcaucus.org/books/egov2001/

Elmagarmid and McIver, “The Ongoing March Toward Digital Government”, Computer, Feb. 2001, p. 32ff., http://www.computer.org/computer/co2001/r2toc.htm

Bert-Jaap Koops, Crypto Law Survey, http://cwis.kub.nl/~frw/people/koops/lawsurvy.htm

David Post, “Governing Cyberspace, or Where is James Madison When We Need Him?”, http://www.temple.edu/lawschool/dpost/icann/comment1.html

John Borland, “ATT Vows No Censorship on New Network”, August 7, 2000, http://news.cnet.com/news//0-1004-200-2458275.html?tag=st.cn.sr.ne.2

Richard Stallman, The right to read, http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/philosophy/right-to-read.html

"Protests Over SA 'Snooping' Bill," Philippa Garson, BBC News, 8/13/01.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/world/africa/newsid_1484000/1484698.stm

** Spend an hour browsing within www.cdt.org, including at least fifteen minutes at http://www.cdt.org/legislation/, especially on Privacy and “E-Gov”at that site.

www.gipiproject.org read many papers there

David Post, “Napster, Jefferson’s Moose, and the Law of Cyberspace”, http://www.temple.edu/lawschool/dpost/Napster.html

** David Post, “What Larry Doesn’t Get: Code, Law, and Liberty in Cyberspace”, Stanford Law Review, vol.52, pp. 1439-1459. Available at http://www.temple.edu/lawschool/dpost/Code.pdf. You need only read Section III, “Common Ground” on the last two pages, but you may wish to read the entire article.

** “Toward a Framework for Internet Accountability”, http://www.stateofthe.net/events/event2.shtml

Larry Lessig, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, Basic Books, 1999

Privacy:

Rosen, “The Eroded Self”, The New York Times Magazine, April 30, 2000, http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20000430mag-internetprivacy.html

Or is http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/rosen1.html (free, no subscription required) the same thing?

Or is it better, to be sure to purchase from the New York Times Archive:

25 articles over a year $19.95 ($0.80/article)

10 articles over a year $9.95 ($0.99/article)

4 articles over a month $5.50 ($1.38/article)

Single article $2.50

Amitai Etzioni, précis of The Limits of Privacy, http://www.gwu.edu/~ccps/lop.html

READ ALL THE PAPERS IN

** Congressional Internet Caucus Briefing Books on Privacy

http://www.netcaucus.org/books/privacy2001/papers/cavoukcomm.pdf

Browse the web site at

www.privacyexchange.org

**http://www4.nationalacademies.org/cpsma/cstb.nsf/web/project_privacy_nominations?OpenDocument (NAS Privacy in the Information Age project description, and excellent history of privacy development in U.S. over last thirty years is under “Detailed Prospectus”)

Ann Cavoukian, “Privacy Commissioners: Powermongers, Pragmatists, or Patsies?”,

pp. 137-140 in CFP2000 Proceedings, www.cpf2000.org/papers/cavoukcomm.pdf

John Schwartz, “As Wireless Networks Grow, So Do Security Fears”, New York Times, Aug. 19, 2001, www.nytimes.com/2001/08/19/technology/19WIRE.html

Duncan Graham-Rowe, “Your Phone is You”, New Scientist, www.newscientist.com/hottopics/tech/yourphoneisyou.jsp

Matt Blaze and Steven M. Bellovin, “Inside Risks 124: Tapping, Tapping on My Network Door”, CACM, October 2000, http://www.crypto.com/paper/carnivore-risks.html

Buro Jansen & Janssen and Eurowatch on Echelon and International Eavesdropping, “Making Up the Rules: Interception vs. Privacy”, (Netherlands) http://www.xs4all.nl/~respub/crypto/english/introduction.html

FBI Carnivore pages at http://www.fbi.gov/programs/carnivore, especially at http://www.fbi.gov/programs/carnivore/carnlrgmap.htm. IITRI report on Carnivore at http://cryptome.org/carnivore-rev.htm

Legal memo supporting EPIC motion for restraining order on Carnivore at http://www.epic.org/privacy/litigation/carnivore_TRO.pdf

** Browse for 30 minutes at www.epic.org

National Consumer Coaltion(conservative group) Consumer Group, http://www.nccprivacy.org/

Susan Stellin, “Consumers’ Views Split on Internet Privacy”, New York Times on the Web, Aug. 21, 2000, http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/08/biztech/articles/21pew.html

Libby Copeland, Cyber-Snooping Into A Cheating Heart ,

Washington Post, Tuesday, August 8, 2000; Page C01

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52154-2000Aug7.html

WinWhatWhere Investigator, http://www.winwhatwhere.com/

Junkbusters, “How Web Servers’ Cookies Threaten Your Privacy”, www.junkbusters.com/ht.en/cookies.html

Examine FTC Privacy web page and follow any links of interest to you at http://www.ftc.gov/privacy/index.html.

Read the executive summary of the report of the Federal Trade Commission, “Privacy Online: Fair Information Practices in the Electronic Marketplace: a Report to Congress” at pages i-iv of http://www.ftc.gov/reports/privacy2000/privacy2000.pdf

Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email web page, http://www.cauce.org/

John Schwartz, “ ‘Web Bugs’ Are Tracking Use of Internet”, New York Times, August 14, 2001, www.nytimes.com/2001/08/14/technology/ebusiness/14WEB.html

John Schwartz, “Chief Privacy Officers Forge Evolving Corporate Roles”, New York Times, www.nytimes.com/2001/02/12/technology/12PRIV.html

Alston & Bird newsletter items (click on privacy and other topics of interest to you) http://www.alston.com/ebusiness/main.cfm?id=7

Hal Berghel, “Cyberprivacy in the New Millenium”, IEEE Computer, January 2001, p. 132ff,

Time Magazine cover story, www.time.com, July 2, 2001,Vol. 157, No. 26, “How to Protect Your Privacy Online”, “Internet Security”, pp. 44-51., http://www.time.com/time/magazine/0,9263,1101010702,00.html (3 stories in all)

PETS material:

“Authentication Technologies and Their Privacy Implications”,

http://www4.nationalacademies.org/webcr.nsf/5c50571a75df494485256a95007a091e/c064af2c95810c25852569fa00647f75?OpenDocument

Privacy Leadership Initiative, “Consumer Tools”: http://www.understandingprivacy.com/content/consumer/tools.cfm

PETS material on Prometheus:

Tara Swaminatha, “Minimum Requirements for Privacy Enhancing Technologies”

“Managing Your Identity on the Internet: Towards a Consumer Guide to Privacy Tools” by CS285 students of Fall 2000. With accompanying Power Point presentation.

Draft PETTEP Workshop Agenda

P3P:

** Start reading the W3C P3P material at www.w3.org/P3P. In particular, read “How to Create and Publish Your Company's P3P Policy (in 6 Easy Steps)”

at http://www.w3.org/P3P/usep3p.html.

** Aaron Goldfeder and Lisa Leibfried, Privacy in Internet Explorer 6,

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnie60/html/ie6privacyfeature.asp

Elections

“Usability Analysis of the Palm Beach Ballot Controversy”, by Prof. Paul Resnick, www.si.umich.edu/~presnick/BallotConfusion

** See also Lorrie Cranor’s web site and her e-voting archive, it is terrific: http://www.research.att.com/~lorrie/voting/hotlist.html

It is probably not pushing it to say anything worthwhile you need to know about online voting you can find at that site.

Publius home page, http://cs1.cs.nyu.edu/waldman/publius.html

Report of the National Workshop on Internet Voting, Issues and Research Agenda, March 2001, http://www.internetpolicy.org/research/e_voting_report.pdf

** July 2001 Report of the Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project:
Voting - What Is, What Could Be, www.vote.caltech.edu

“What’s happening in Florida? Bugs in Computerized Voting”, Prof. Michael Shamos, www.ecom.cmu.edu/resources/evote/vote2.ppt

** Report of the California Internet Voting Task Force, http://www.ss.ca.gov/executive/ivote/

“Is Internet voting safe?” by Deborah Phillips and David Jefferson,

http://www.voting-integrity.org/text/2000/internetsafe.shtml

Lance J. Hoffman and Lorrie Cranor, “Internet Voting for Public Officials”, Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (CACM), 44, 1 (Jan. 2001), 69-71. Available in ACM Digital Library at www.acm.org/pubs/articles/journals/cacm/2001-44-1/p69-hoffman/p69-hoffman.html

“Known Vendors of Computerized Vote Tabulation Systems”, www.fec.gov/votregis/vendorslist.htm

“History of the Voting System Standards Program”, www.fec.gov/pages/vsshst.htm

“Frequently Asked Questions About Voting System Standards”, www.fec.gov/pages/faqsvss.htm

** “Internet Voting: Not Ready for Prime Time”, Lance Hoffman, http://www.cpi.seas.gwu.edu//library/presentations/internet-voting/index.htm

“An Election Administrator’s Guide to Computerized Voting Systems”

http://www.ecri.org/documents/111300.htm and Prof. Hoffman has the paper report from 1988.

Prof. Hoffman’s 1988 report “Making Every Vote Count”, www.seas.gwu.edu/~cpi/library/docs/hoffman_voting.pdf

http://www.cpi.seas.gwu.edu/library/docs/hoffman_voting.pdf ????

Report of the Special Committee on Voting Systems and Election Procedures in Maryland, Feb. 2001, www.sos.state.md.us/sos/admin/pdf/reportall1.pdf

Joe Mohen and Julia Glidden, “The Case for Internet Voting”, CACM 44, 1 (Jan. 2001), 72 ff., available at http://www.acm.org/pubs/contents/journals/cacm/2001-44/#1

Deborah Phillips and Hans A. Von Spakovsky, “Gauging the Risks of Internet Elections”, CACM 44, 1 (Jan. 2001), p.73ff, available at http://www.acm.org/pubs/contents/journals/cacm/2001-44/#1

Web page of Prof.Rebecca Mercuri, http://mainline.brynmawr.edu/~rmercuri/notable/evote.html

Intellectual Property

“I Thought We Knew That”, http://www.cyberlaw.stanford.edu/lessig/I_Thought_We_Knew_That.mp3

Throwing the eBook at Him”,

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101010820-170863,00.html,in

Aug. 20, 2001, Time, special issue, Vol. 158, No. 7, America’s Best/Science and Medicine

** “Jailed Under a Bad Law”, Washington Post editorial, August 21, 2001, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/opinion/A38463-2001Aug20.html

** Lessig, L., “Open Code and Open Societies”, choose from papers at http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/lessig/content/index.html. (Note that

Open Code, Open Culture is a Work in Progress(Random House, 2001)

** “2 Scholars Face Off in Copyright Clash; Should we protect intellectual property by limiting the discussion of decryption research?”, Chronicle of Higher Education, August 10, 2001

http://www.chronicle.com/free/v47/i48/48a04501.htm

** “How to Decrypt a DVD”, a haiku,and other anti-DVD protection things at

www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery

Go to the World Wide Web and check out Napster (www.napster.com). Then check out Bearshare (www.bearshare.com), Gnutella (www.gnutella.wego.com), and Gnotella (http://www.gnotella.com)

Scott Harris, “The Piano Scroll Precedent”, The Industry Standard, August 7, 2000, http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17416-0,00.html

** Dan Carnevale, “A Professor’s Lectures for an On-Line Law School Become an Issue at Harvard”, Chronicle of Higher Education, November 24, 1999 NOT AVAILABLE TO NON-SUBSCRIBERS SO INSTEAD READ THE STORY BY Amy Dockser Marcus, “I Said This, It’s Mine: Why Harvard Wants to Rein In One of Its Star Professors”, Wall Street Journal, November 22, 1999, note free access not at WSJ site but at http://platforum.tripod.com/professor.htm. It is very unclear where this site comes from, though I’m sure (extra credit!) a diligent student can traceback its source to some extent. (It also has copyrighted material from the Los Angeles Times.)

“Is Linking Illegal?” by CarlT S. Kaplan, http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/06/cyber/cyberlaw/16law.html

Ken Kurson, “Questions for David Boies: Download Interrupted”, New York Times Sunday Magazine, August 13, 2000, p. 21, http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20000813mag-qaboies.html

John Markoff, “More Taking than Giving on the Web”, New York Times on the Web, August 21, 2000, http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/08/biztech/articles/21shar.html

** Tim O’Reilly, “My Conversation with Jeff Bezos”, March 2, 2000, http://www.oreilly.com/ask_tim/bezos_0300.html

** Jeff Bezos, “An Open Letter on the Subject of Patents”, http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/misc/patents.html/002-3298228-7498459